Jump to full article: Orange County (CA) Register, 2010-07-20
Intro: Will apartment complexes be the next smoke-free slice of life? Well, the city of Sebastopol in northern California is now considering a ban on smoking in apartments. Plus, a recent essay in The New England Journal of Medicine advocates that smoking should be banned in all multi-family housing and called on the federal government to prohibit tobacco smoke in Public Housing Authorities.
While governments have banned smoking in public places, private homes have been considered off-limits for such regulation. The journal argues that policy should end. . . .
In Orange County, about 36 Orange County landlords have registered their properties as tobacco-free with the Granada Hills-based Smokefree Apartment House Registry. The registry says there are at least 324 known units that are off-limits to smokers.
A Santa Ana youth brought up the issue in a recent "Straight Talk for Teens."
What do you think?
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